[Discussion] OS Refresh after Hardware Upgrade

[Derek W. Keoughan]

Don Burch wrote:
> Thanks everyone. I have had no issues moving my OS/2 system drive to 
> different pc's. In the 486 days I always sensed that a fresh install 
> every year or so got rid of a lot of junk and performance seemed to 
> improve. With today's hardware you don't really notice.
> 
> Can you elaborate on your cloning technique? Are you doing an simple xcopy?

DFSee...  copy entire partition, set boot block... taa-daa! :)

(Yes, there's a little more to it than that, but not much!)

-Derek


> Stanley Sidlov wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 May 2007 09:26:56 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:
>>
>>> replace the HD with
>>> a *different* brand/model HD and then just restore the cloned backup. 
>>> His rationale was that, during the OS/2 install, there is something
>>> unique to the HD that is placed in the kernel [I think that's where he
>>> said it went.] that would not match the new HD.
>> Again, I agree with Derek. I cloned my Hitachi 40G HD from my laptop onto a 100G Toshiba. 
>> eCS booted the first time.  
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